# Semira Adamu

> Semira Precious Adamu was a 20-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker who was suffocated to death by two Belgian police officers on a aeroplane in Brussels, Belgium, during her forced deportation on September 22, 1998. The police officers recorded video footage of themselves exchanging jokes as they pushed her head deep into a pillow for 20 minutes with her hands and ankles handcuffed; during which Adamu had stopped breathing for 7 to 8 minutes. She died in the St Luc Hospital later the same day at 9:32pm. When the court asked why so much force was used, one of the officers said that it was necessary "to avoid disturbing other passengers".

*Twenty year old Nigerian woman killed in Belgium.*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/semira-adamu

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** Nigeria
- **Born:** 1978-06-17
- **Died:** 1998-09-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 45.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 9.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #198
- **Category rank:** #249

## Sources
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- [Dood van Semira Adamu](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dood_van_Semira_Adamu)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1962410)

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